Given that teams in the Scottish Premier League play each other about 20 times a year, Inverness Caledonian Thistle's 3-2 win over Celtic at the weekend is not in the shock/horror category. Such is the narrow insularity of Scottish football that what goes around tends to come around.
No surprises, either, that the Scottish Sun would raid its Mary Poppins cupboard again to resurrect a version of its "Super Caley go Ballistic" headline. This year's model read "Super Cowie goes Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious", Cowie being the Inverness striker who scored the winner.
Six years ago the Scottish sports desk's loopy chief sub Paul Hickson was hailed as a genius for the Sun's original "Super Caley" headline after Inverness beat Celtic in the Scottish Cup. Monday morning's offering probably came from the same source.
In fact, like a lot of things in The Sun, what its Scottish sports editor describes as the "sensational Sunsport headline" was nicked.
Some 35 years, both the Liverpool Daily Post and the old Manchester-based Daily Express used it to describe a display by Ian "Cally" Callaghan.
"Super Cally Goes Ballistic, QPR Atrocious" said the Echo.
If I were them, I'd sue Hickson, and The Sun, for plagiarism.
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